Revision as of 19:19, 29 April 2012

MythTV 0.25 added support for AirTunes and AirPlay for streaming audio and video from iOS devices to MythFrontend.

Note: Please note - AirPlay (video support) is experimental at this time. Although AirPlay and AirTunes will work from various iOS devices (i.e., iPod touch, iPhone, iPad), it does not currently work when trying to stream from iTunes.

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Enabling AirTunes

AirTunes does not work out the box because AirTunes is a proprietary format and is encrypted in order to enable vendor lock-in. Fortunately the encryption key has been discovered which enables use of AirTunes in open source applications such as MythTV.

When starting the frontend, you will get the following message in the log: